Phys. Rev. D 75, 083524 (2007) [4 pages]

Radiation can never again dominate matter in a vacuum dominated universe

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Lawrence M. Krauss^1,2 and Robert J. Scherrer²
¹CERCA, Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
²Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA

Received 7 February 2007; published 25 April 2007

We demonstrate that in a vacuum-energy-dominated expansion phase, surprisingly neither the decay of matter nor matter-antimatter annihilation into relativistic particles can ever cause radiation to once again dominate over matter in the future history of the Universe.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.75.083524

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.75.083524

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98.80.−k, 95.36.+x

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Phys. Rev. D 75, 083524 (2007) [4 pages]

Radiation can never again dominate matter in a vacuum dominated universe